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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Part I Overview
- 01 About AutoCAD Mechanical
- AutoCAD Mechanical Software Package
- Leveraging Legacy Data
- Starting AutoCAD Mechanical
- Accessing AutoCAD Mechanical Commands
- AutoCAD Mechanical Help
- Product Support and Training Resources
- Design Features in AutoCAD Mechanical
- Mechanical Structure
- Associative Design and Detailing
- External References for Mechanical Structure
- Associative 2D Hide
- Autodesk Inventor Companion Support
- 2D Design Productivity
- Engineering Calculations
- Machinery Systems Generators
- Intelligent Production Drawing and Detailing
- Detailing Productivity
- Annotations
- Standard Mechanical Content
- Standard Parts Tools
- Collaboration
- 02 Commands in AutoCAD Mechanical
- 03 New and Revised Commands
- 01 About AutoCAD Mechanical
- Part II Design and Annotation Tools
- 04 Working with Templates
- 05 Using Mechanical Structure
- 06 Working with Layers and Layer Groups
- 07 Designing Levers
- 08 Working with Model Space and Layouts
- 09 Dimensioning
- 10 Working with 2D Hide and 2D Steel Shapes
- 11 Working with Standard Parts
- Key Terms
- Working with Standard Parts
- Inserting Screw Connections
- Copying Screw Connections with Power Copy
- Creating Screw Templates
- Editing Screw Connections with Power Edit
- Working with Power View
- Deleting with Power Erase
- Inserting Holes
- Inserting Pins
- Turning Off Centerlines in Configurations
- Hiding Construction Lines
- Simplifying Representations of Standard Parts
- 12 Working with BOMs and Parts Lists
- 13 Creating Shafts with Standard Parts
- Key Terms
- Creating Shafts
- Configuring Snap Options
- Configuring Shaft Generators
- Creating Cylindrical Shaft Sections and Gears
- Inserting Spline Profiles
- Inserting Chamfers and Fillets
- Inserting Shaft Breaks
- Creating Side Views of Shafts
- Inserting Threads on Shafts
- Editing Shafts and Inserting Sections
- Replacing Shaft Sections
- Inserting Bearings
- 14 Calculating Shafts
- Part III Engineering Calculations
- Part IV Autodesk Inventor Link
- Appendix A Layer Specifications
- Appendix B Title Block Attributes
- Appendix C Accelerator and Shortcut Keys
- Index
DefinitionTerm
Standard parts representation in a drawing in normal, simplified, or symbolic
mode.
representation
Working with Standard Parts
AutoCAD Mechanical provides a large selection of standard parts to work with,
including regular and fine threads, many types of holes, fasteners, and other
standard parts. You can insert complete screw connections (screws with holes
and nuts) in one step. Some intelligence is built into this process. For example,
if you select a screw with a metric thread, you get only metric threads when
you add any additional parts such as tapped holes or nuts.
NOTE It is required that the ISO standard parts be installed for this tutorial exercise.
When standard parts are placed in a drawing, they are automatically included
in mechanical structure, whether or not the assembly drawing is structured.
Open the initial drawing.
To open a drawing
1 Open the file tut_std_pts.dwg in the acadm\tutorial folder.
Toolbutton
File ➤ Open
Menu
OPENCommand
The drawing contains a motor with a gearbox. Some construction lines
are inserted to help you work through the tutorial exercise. The gearbox
is not completed yet. We want to add standard components and show
how easy it is to edit standard parts with an automatic update of the
background objects.
Before you proceed, you must enable mechanical structure. If you proceed
without mechanical structure enabled, some command line prompts will
differ from the prompts in the exercise.
2 On the status bar, click the STRUCT button to latch it down.
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